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9/11IAN URQUHART SARAWAK CINEREEL 08 of 23
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- Publication date
- 1956
- Usage
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
- Topics
- Cinereel, Silent Standard 8mm, Sarawak, Malaysia, Borneo
- Rights
- Unless stated otherwise all rights for commercial use is retained by the Urquhart family (Alexa Young, Neil Urquhart and Murdo Urquhart).
- Item Size
- 1.7G
Filmed on Silent Standard 8mm film by former British civil service officer, Ian Urquhart in Baram District, 4th Division, Sarawak, Malaysia, 1954-1965. Restored and digitised at 24fps. Ian's annotations have been transcribed in their original form. Known acronyms are described. See below for more information about Ian Urquhart.
Reel 08 Annotations
Long Pila and Long Akah.
View of the Baram River from Penghulu Kebeng's house at Long Pila. Fleeting view of the longhouse. Kayan rice barns. Olga and Pengh. Kebeng (a Kayan) advancing.
Kayans, including women, carrying empty bamboos for water. Note how elegantly they walk. Upriver Agent Ismael in white cap.
Arrival in early morning mist and hazy weather. View of the Fort and views from it, including a glimpse of Kalulong (5400 ft).
View of Temonggong Oyong Lawai Jau's temporary longhouse at water's edge so that the future permanent house (to replace the one destroyed by fire) can be built behind it higher up the river bank.
Cpl.Peter Lilin (a Kelabit) dancing. The path from the Fort to the bazaar and the bazaar.
On the other side of the river the temporary longhouse and Kenyah Long Tikan children playing.
The R.C. Mission church, mission school and boarding house and the Fathers' house.
On arrival greeted by the Dutch Rev. Frs. Oomen and Tolboom. Brother Alexander striding away. The church and school.
View of the Baram River from Penghulu Kebeng's house at Long Pila. Fleeting view of the longhouse. Kayan rice barns. Olga and Pengh. Kebeng (a Kayan) advancing.
Kayans, including women, carrying empty bamboos for water. Note how elegantly they walk. Upriver Agent Ismael in white cap.
Arrival in early morning mist and hazy weather. View of the Fort and views from it, including a glimpse of Kalulong (5400 ft).
View of Temonggong Oyong Lawai Jau's temporary longhouse at water's edge so that the future permanent house (to replace the one destroyed by fire) can be built behind it higher up the river bank.
Cpl.Peter Lilin (a Kelabit) dancing. The path from the Fort to the bazaar and the bazaar.
On the other side of the river the temporary longhouse and Kenyah Long Tikan children playing.
The R.C. Mission church, mission school and boarding house and the Fathers' house.
On arrival greeted by the Dutch Rev. Frs. Oomen and Tolboom. Brother Alexander striding away. The church and school.
About Ian Urquhart
Ian Urquhart was a decorated British soldier, posted to Sarawak, where he served from 1947 to 1965. A brilliant linguist with an abiding interest in learning about other people and their cultures, he was a natural fit to be a civil service officer.
In addition to his administrative duties, he studied the indigenous communities he encountered focusing on their varied languages. From 1951 to 1959, Ian published several articles published by the Sarawak Museum Journal.
It was during this period that he conducted many trips into the jungles of Sarawak, in particular the Kelabit highlands and the Ulu Baram. From 1957 his wife Bunty accompanied him and contributed to some of the filming.
It was these trips that he documented on Silent Standard/Regular 8mm colour and b/w cinefilm leaving his family and the people of Sarawak with not only a detailed account of his life there, he annotated all 30 reels, 23 of which are available in this collection.
Ian Urquhart was a decorated British soldier, posted to Sarawak, where he served from 1947 to 1965. A brilliant linguist with an abiding interest in learning about other people and their cultures, he was a natural fit to be a civil service officer.
In addition to his administrative duties, he studied the indigenous communities he encountered focusing on their varied languages. From 1951 to 1959, Ian published several articles published by the Sarawak Museum Journal.
It was during this period that he conducted many trips into the jungles of Sarawak, in particular the Kelabit highlands and the Ulu Baram. From 1957 his wife Bunty accompanied him and contributed to some of the filming.
It was these trips that he documented on Silent Standard/Regular 8mm colour and b/w cinefilm leaving his family and the people of Sarawak with not only a detailed account of his life there, he annotated all 30 reels, 23 of which are available in this collection.
Credits
Camera - Ian Urquhart
Restoration and digitization - R3store, London
Archive research and production - Andrew Garton in collaboration with Alexa Young, Neil Urquhart and Murdo Urquhart
